Ex-$500k/year engineer with 28 years of experience homeless after year-long job hunt
ericelliott_ · x · 2026-11-05
Eric Elliott, a 28-year veteran engineer and AI practitioner since the 1990s, says he went from $500k/year to living in his car after 12%+ unemployment and 9.7-month average job searches. He cites Huntr data showing 27% of job seekers have been searching over a year, and six other developers reached out in the same boat — a warning about the AI-era job market.
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